Fresno Fire responds to Fourth of July incidents

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Fourth of July is historically 1 of the busiest days of the twelvemonth for firefighters.

Fresno Fire Department utilized other resources to assistance support the assemblage harmless passim the night.

"We are staffing 2 further engines and a wildland brushwood rig conscionable to beryllium acceptable to respond to those calls arsenic they travel in," Public Information Officer Josh Sellers said.

Sellers besides says the crews bash look challenges portion putting retired the fires connected Independence Day.

"Those crews that are responding to those calls implicit and implicit to the adjacent 1 to the adjacent one, it's inactive hot. And our protective cogwheel that we person to deterioration is large astatine protecting america from being burned. But it does origin heat-related injuries if we don't get a accidental to chill down and enactment hydrated," Sellers said.

Brian Price, Battalion Chief for Fresno Fire, says the presumption usually has 4 unit traveling successful 1 motortruck but present has an further 3 for other hands connected the Fourth of July.

"We've got a batch of unit connected scene, we've besides changed up our effect program truthful successful a anticipation of a precocious measurement of calls we've changed the mode we're dispatching to expedite much rigs, to beryllium acceptable to respond quicker successful the lawsuit of aggregate fires," Price said.

Most of the fires responded to are caused by amerciable fireworks.

"Fireworks that permission the crushed and spell boom, they look great, but they are large incendiary devices, and they commencement aggregate fires," Price said.

Officials inquire residents to enactment harmless erstwhile celebrating and to telephone 911 successful an emergency.